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Did not like the movie at all.
I possibly had too high of expectations because I thought the trailer looked great....especially the teasers that just showed the guy "peeling his skin off in pain". Or at least, that's what I thought was happening in the theater when I saw the trailer. They really made it out to be like it was some kind of skin disease or corruption of his body by an alien parasite or something sinister like that. Then when you watch the movie it's just some byproduct of being in the cryo-freeze or some nonsense like that. Totally underplayed and a wasted buildup.
On top of that, I thought the story was really thin. The part where Dennis Quaid's character says something like "Oh...why did you have to bring up one of the most terrible things in history" as an excuse to explain Pandorum just felt really forced. And speaking of Quaid....he's really phoning in his performances these days. His role for the first half of the movie pretty much consisted of "Bower? Bower? Private Bower are you there? Can ya read me Bower? HELLO? BOWER??????...........................*sigh*.....b ower?"
Just sad.
And the revelation at the end didn't surprised me in the least. I did, however, like the general production design and the claustrophobic vents and ducts. If there was more of that and less "ZOMG ALIENS OUT TO GET US!" I probably would have dug it more. This is a movie that would have worked better with a lot more subtlety.
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